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- The Man Who Borrows Lives from the Living 阳间借命人 Nine Tripod Dragon Palace, Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, Yin-Yang Inn... From the moment I borrowed a life from the underworld, I was doomed to a life of unrest. Every time I borrow a life, I face a deadly trial. After one desperate struggle and narrow escape after another, I wait for the next secret order from the Underworld Bureau, so I can keep living. Just when I thought I had escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for m 13.7MClicks25.7kFavorites61.6kRecs
- Folk Taboos and Strange Tales 民间禁忌怪谈 Ever since I was a kid, I thought my grandpa was strange. Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked to wander deep into the old forest. Then one day, he brought a little girl back from the woods, and I discovered the secret he was hiding. From then on, I tried to get away, but only became more deeply entangled... 2.2MClicks857Favorites285Recs
- Usurping Heaven's Mandate 篡天命 Fate can be known, but not changed. Calamities can be foretold, but not avoided. But my Wu family believes only that "fate is not decided by Heaven." I am Heaven, and I am fate! I am the one who usurps Heaven's mandate! 2MClicks5.9kFavorites4.7kRecs
- No Living Person May Pass 生人止步 Twenty years ago, a storm gathered around a cave that countless people tried to explore to its depths. How many bodies were buried there, leaving behind only a stone? Twenty years later, the story still wasn’t over, and those six skeletons drew me into a deadly ordeal... 1.8MClicks581Favorites1.1kRecs
- Paranormal Horror Case Notes 灵异惊魂笔录 432.1kClicks522Favorites2kRecs
- My Life in the Mystic Arts 我的玄门生涯 Three years ago, I graduated from a top-tier 985 university. Now I specialize in exorcising evil. 278.7kClicks4kFavorites385Recs
- The Dragon Binder 锁龙人 Kunming, also known as the Spring City, is the name familiar to everyone today. Few know that this region, where people have lived for some thirty thousand years, is the "Shanjie City" often mentioned in ancient Buddhist scriptures. Even fewer know that this city is also called the Dragon's Lair. Where there is a Dragon's Lair, there are dragons. And where there are dragons, there is a mysterious and ancient profession: the Dragon Lockers. During the Republic of China era, as wars raged and evil 128.3kClicks421Favorites307Recs
- Brave Warriors Vs. Evil Jiangshi 勇道斗恶僵 [Daoist Sect Secret Arts, Mysteries Through the Ages] [Hot-Blooded Heroes, Saving the People] [Heavenly Demons and Jiangshi, Bringing Calamity to the World] [Shocking Spells, Strange Tales of Phantom Shadows] [Daoist priests catching ghosts is nothing new. Watch the demon-hunting clans battle evil spirits!] The "Ten Thousand Poisons Essence Pill" of the Miao borderlands in Jiangnan, the "God-Slaying Treasure Cloak" of an ancient temple in the northwest, the "Heaven-Burning Pellet" of the Tibetan 118.2kClicks405Favorites38.6kRecs
- Ghost Stories Beneath the Moon 月下诡话 The night is dark and gloomy, the night is bleak and miserable. A black cat lets out a bloodcurdling yowl outside the window. Don't be scared. Maybe it's just playing with someone. A black dog keeps barking wildly outside the door. It's fine, go back to sleep. Maybe nothing really is wrong! What? Who am I? I'm nobody! I'm just a writer. Hm? You want to know who I write about? A great general? No! A god? No! A cultivator? Not that, either! I write about what you fear, about things you m 77.4kClicks57Favorites120Recs
- The Beautiful Corpse and the Knife-Seller 美人尸，赊刀人 The day I was born, all things withered and disasters struck without end. To keep me alive, Grandpa made me spend every day with the female corpse in her coffin. Eighteen years later, Grandpa died mysteriously after leaving behind a prophecy about a knife sold on credit, but the incorruptible female corpse in the coffin... The secret art of selling knives on credit, feng shui and divination, the Southern Maoshan and Northern horse shamans, the twelve zodiac animals, corpse-driving in western Hun 41.4kClicks49Favorites2Recs
- Tomb Painting 画墓 A million soldiers mysteriously perish, leaving a once-mighty kingdom to collapse in an instant. A jade pendant. A strange painting. A series of decoy tombs. An evil altar. How will these clues lead them to the ultimate answer? Join our protagonist as he sets out, step by step, to explore mysteries that have lain buried for thousands of years... 29.7kClicks364Favorites295Recs
- The Feng Shui Master of the Nine Dragons 九龙风水师 The day I was born, my parents hanged themselves, and the villagers wanted to sacrifice me to the River God. The floodwaters surrounded us and would not recede. My grandfather threw me into the river, and nine dragons carried me back. My grandfather gave me my life. The marriage fate and fortune he left me are now being coveted by someone. The ugliness of human nature, the greed of desire, the deadly road to the underworld. To stay alive, I must fulfill my mission! 15.9kClicks25Favorites161Recs
- The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain, Only to Be Hunted by a Vengeful Ghost Right After His Engagement 天师下山，刚定亲就被厉鬼索命 Other men hope their families will live in harmony when they marry, but my wife had barely joined the family before she wished my entire family dead. My name is Xie Que. I was born under an ill-fated star, and even the wife I married keeps trying to kill me. To protect myself, I finally made a decision that defied my ancestors! 12.1kClicks6Favorites0Recs
- Disaster! A Snake Demon Has Possessed My Wife 完蛋！我妻子被蛇妖夺舍了 My name is Xiao Shouling. I was born with seven destined marriages, yet I come from a family of spirit guardians fated to be sacrificed. But I survived in the end. It all began when my grandmother decided to kill a god... 9.2kClicks36Favorites11Recs
- The Traveler Through Time 光阴旅人 A fugitive from 390,000 years ago dares to run his mouth! A defeated loser from 390,000 years ago! Come forward and meet your death!!! Time passed, and the fugitive of old returned to the ancestral planet. What turmoil would he stir up, and what experiences would await him? Would the flames of war continue, or would this be the beginning of peace...? 4.6kClicks7Favorites0Recs
- Reincarnation in Heaven 天堂之轮回 After people die, do they really have souls? If so, where do they go? Is reincarnation real? Those who know never come back, while those who do return have no idea. Except for one person... The mystical arts in this story are completely made up. Do not attempt them yourself. Anyone who does is responsible for the consequences! Especially the long-lost art of astral projection. I tried it once, and almost couldn't get back. It was freaking terrifying! Remember that! 4.4kClicks6Favorites0Recs
- I Collect Souls in the Mortal Realm 我在阳间做收魂人 I have the Heavenly Eye to see ghosts and gods, and hands that command yin and yang. I rise from an obscure live-in son-in-law to become the ruler of the darkness. When I close my right eye, I can see lonely ghosts wandering the mortal realm. When I close my left, I can recognize demons and rogue immortals among humanity. My left hand is yin and my right hand is yang. With both, I can capture spirits and smite demons, while the yin-yang pendant on my chest can drive away evil spirits and banish 1.5kClicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Dao Heart Within the Corpse 尸存道心 His father's serious illness, a younger sister who needs looking after, and a mother earning a meager salary: the pressure of it all drives Luo Yu, a college student with only average grades, to choose a rural teaching program in exchange for a recommendation to pursue graduate studies. Still basking in the joy of passing his interview, Luo Yu has no idea that an eerie village is waiting for him. 1.5kClicks8Favorites5Recs
- Benjamin’s Diary 本杰明日记 Benjamin seems like an ordinary young man, just like the rest of us. But who could tell that all his loneliness is laid bare in his diary? Maybe we all have some hidden darkness inside us. Will you face it? Will you write it down in your diary? Or will you hold yourself back and choose to become a better person? Perhaps we'll never know. Let's take a look at Benjamin's diary. 1.2kClicks2Favorites1Recs
- Tales of Mao Shan 茅苫奇谈 A record of strange tales and bizarre happenings among the people of Northeast China. Some of these stories were told by elderly people, while others came from friends or circulated through society. Whether they're true or false is anyone's guess… 1.1kClicks5Favorites5Recs
- Mô-shén-zǎi 魔神仔 [Proof of Publication Posted at Readers' Request] My name is Shen Hao. I have a friend who specializes in finding missing people. But the people he looks for haven't gone missing by accident, nor have they been kidnapped by human traffickers. Instead... they've been abducted by creatures known as "Moshenzai." At first, I was very curious about these creatures called "Moshenzai." But after my older sister went missing, I began to fear them, because they were truly terrifying... "A-Are they ghosts 925Clicks3Favorites0Recs
- The Girl Under the Lamp 灯下姑娘 My Good Girl His Good Girl I Have a Good Girl He Has a Good Girl 893Clicks3Favorites1Recs
- Screams from the Abyss 来自归墟的尖叫 In the area around Liulong Mountain, an obscure proverb has been passed down: “Children of Xixiang laugh at the Ruins; they scramble to the bamboo and grass fields. One night of wind and rain, all things perish, yet no one leaves.” Even the locals cannot figure out what the proverb means, though legend says it has been passed down for a thousand years. Then, on a quiet evening, the birth of a strange baby in an ordinary household on Liulong Mountain began to slowly lift the veil of mystery from 705Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Immortal Daoist 不死道人 After accidentally falling off a cliff, I discovered that I could actually get stronger! So I switched on cheat mode. By the time I had just come of age, even my master, famed as the God of Slaying Corpses, couldn't beat me anymore. The old man gave me the religious name Unkillable, then sent me straight down the mountain. From then on, I lived an unkillable life. The more grievous my injuries, the stronger I became, until at last no one could match me. That line, "This poor Daoist's religious 682Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- Spirit-Driving Master 驱灵相师 My fate is marked by a ghostly curse. Feng shui energy disperses around me, and I bear a curse that makes me a ghost in body and a human in fate. According to my fortune, I won't live past thirty. My grandfather traded years off his own life for the first twenty years of mine, while my grandmother suffered three calamities for my sake, sacrificing her own life force. To break the curse, I set out on the path of ghost hunting. Flying corpses in western Hunan, ghost ships in the South Sea, the Qil 348Clicks8Favorites0Recs
- The Death of Old Man Fang 方老头之死 In a remote mountain village in Southwest China in the 1990s, a death ruled as an alcohol-related sudden death leaves a brother and sister carrying trauma. Their fates are torn between their homeland, blood ties, and rumors. **Dry grass meets a spark, and the truth goes up in flames.** Repressed and desolate, with dark currents running beneath the surface, the story ends in wandering and old scars that cannot be escaped. 159Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Foolish Wife Is a Profound Sect Powerhouse 傻子老婆是玄门大佬 My mother died the day I was born. My father cut me alive from her womb. Everyone in the village said I was cursed. Later, my father killed a teacher, and she turned into a vengeful ghost to take revenge, tearing him to pieces. Mr. Wu, who was skilled in Taoist arts, saved me, but paid for it with his life. On his deathbed, he promised his granddaughter to me in marriage. More than ten years later, my grandfather forced me to marry. Only then did I discover that Mr. Wu's granddaughter, Wu Qianqi 22Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- Madmen and Strange Tales 疯子与奇谈 Here, there are no strange tales, folk stories, or myths and legends. There is only the rambling of a madman. Am I mad? Are the people around me sane? Is this world really what you think it is? Am I crazy? What do you think? 21Clicks0Favorites0Recs
